Putney

Putney is a district in southwest London, England, located 6.1 miles southwest of Charing Cross, in the borough of Wandsworth. Putney was an ancient parish which was located in Surrey until 1889, when it became part of the County of London. By the 1840s, Putney was a part-wooded, part-agricultural village connected to Fulham by bridge. During the 1890s, the area became highly desirable for wealthy residents of the City of London, and it became a well-to-do, middle-class neighborhood. In 1965, Putney was incorporated into the London Borough of Wandsworth, and it remained a mostly professional neighborhood into the 21st century. In 2011, Putney's population was 81% white, 8% Asian, 5% black, and 4% mixed-race, while 56% were Christian, 27% irreligious, 8% agnostic, and 5% Muslim.